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Complex structures adapted to magnetic flows

Symplectic Geometry 2017-02-22 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Let MM be a compact real-analytic manifold, equipped with a real-analytic Riemannian metric g,g, and let β\beta be a closed real-analytic 2-form on MM, interpreted as a magnetic field. Consider the Hamiltonian flow on TMT^*M that describes a charged particle moving in the magnetic field β\beta. Following an idea of T. Thiemann, we construct a complex structure on a tube inside TMT^*M by pushing forward the vertical polarization by the Hamiltonian flow "evaluated at time ii." This complex structure fits together with ωπβ\omega-\pi^*\beta to give a Kaehler structure on a tube inside TMT^*M. We describe this magnetic complex structure in terms of its (1,0)(1,0)-tangent bundle, at the level of holomorphic functions, and via a construction using the embeddings of Whitney-Bruhat and Grauert, which is a magnetic analogue to the analytic continuation of the geometric exponential map. We describe an antiholomorphic intertwiner between this complex structure and the complex structure induced by β-\beta, and we give two formulas for local Kaehler potentials, which depend on a local choice of vector potential 1-form for β\beta. When β=0\beta=0, our magnetic complex structure is the adapted complex structure of Lempert-Sz\H{o}ke and Guillemin-Stenzel. We compute the magnetic complex structure explicitly for constant magnetic fields on R2\mathbb{R}^{2} and S2.S^{2}. In the R2\mathbb{R}^{2} case, the magnetic adapted complex structure for a constant magnetic field is related to work of Kr\"otz-Thangavelu-Xu on heat kernel analysis on the Heisenberg group.

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@article{arxiv.1201.2142,
  title  = {Complex structures adapted to magnetic flows},
  author = {Brian C. Hall and William D. Kirwin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.2142},
  year   = {2017}
}

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29 pages

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